/anˈdaɾ/, [an̪ˈd̪aɾ]
OriginInherited from Old Galician-Portuguese andar, from Early Medieval Latin andāre, of uncertain origin.
- intransitiveto walk
- intransitiveto wander, to travel
- intransitiveto go, to proceed
- catenativeto be or keep (doing)
“-A que andas, ho? -Ando a correr!” — "Hey! What are you doing?" "I'm running!"
“Andas a saltar e caiches.” — You are jumping around and now you have fallen.
“A policia colleu a uns que andaban a roubar casas.” — The police captured some who were burgling homes.
- intransitiveto search, catch or gather
“O Carpulla andaba á bosta. Cun cesto de aro colgado debaixo do brazo, iba e viña por camiños e carreiros recollendo canta alcontraba para facer esterco” — Carpulla ("Hunger") used to search for platters. With a hoop basked under the arm, he came and went on the roads and ways, gathering each one he could find to make manure
- intransitiveto move
- catenativeto be about to
- masculinestorey, stage, floor, level
“1833, Florencio Pol, Espello de deputados, page 4 (in Ramón Mariño Paz (2008), Papés d'emprenta condenada. A escrita galega entre 1797 e 1846.)” — arriving there I found his house, which is just straight down the promenade, on the same floor I asked for the lord, but at the moment I saw him coming down
- masculinewalk, pace, gait
“sol [...] tanto he oseu lume et tam grande o poder (dos) seus rrayos que por donde el vay tolle áás outras planetas o andar” — the Sun … it is so large its light and so big the power of its rays that wherever it goes it takes from the other planets its walk
- masculinepace
“Éche un andar miudiño, miudiño, miudiño, o que eu traio. Que eu traio unha borracheira, de viño, c'auga non bebo” — It's a slow, slow pace which brings me. Since I'm drunk of wine, 'cause I don't drink water
Formsando(first-person, present, singular) · andei(first-person, preterite, singular) · andado(participle, past) · andar(impersonal, infinitive) · andar(first-person, infinitive, singular) · andares(infinitive, second-person, singular) · andar(error-unrecognized-form, infinitive, personal, singular) · andarmos(first-person, infinitive, plural) · andardes(infinitive, plural, second-person) · andaren(error-unrecognized-form, infinitive, personal, plural) · andando(gerund) · andado(error-unrecognized-form, masculine, participle, past, singular) · andado(first-person, masculine, participle, past, singular) · andado(masculine, participle, past, second-person, singular) · andados(error-unrecognized-form, masculine, participle, past, plural) · andados(first-person, masculine, participle, past, plural, second-person) · andada(error-unrecognized-form, feminine, participle, past, singular) · andada(feminine, first-person, participle, past, singular) · andada(feminine, participle, past, second-person, singular) · andadas(error-unrecognized-form, feminine, participle, past, plural)